dingles staying down 4ever

If the past is anything to go by. Williams for Bell and Evans for Travis is my guess. Possibly drop Graham and play Dack as an inverted No.9 seem to be his favourite options

They should make the ref assessor's report public. Have a league table of avg marks for refs. Make them accountable.

Another case of us not learning from past mistakes. He'll now have a twelve month injury.

It appears to me that Mowbray has to be brave enough tostand up and drop Mulgrew first. I know he has offered Lenihan getting injured as an excuse but this is partnered with Mulgrew return from injury. Its time to face facts he is a very poor defender who is good at making players around him look worse than him. Hes a poor captain. I've said a couple of years ago that the one leader in the team is Lenihan. He is the one that organises and communicates but Mulgrew is constantly ball watching should be watching his central defender partner and full back but you never hear or see him shout instructions.

Maybe so but we can't keep masking poor performances behind a poor ref time and time again.

I think Evans has signed an extension too.

He did on loan. Seem to remember it being over Christmas in Kenny's first season

So a defeat it is then

The club has recovered but several playing problems remain which he inherited. Large amount of defensive mistakes Players out of position Conceding late goals are just three examples. We have made progress as there is a more positive feel about the club but lets not over hype it. The starting XI is not much different than two years ago and evidence is showing that several of these players are ageing.

I thought he signed on loan and made his debut at Wolves. He was rubbish that day and didn't improve as his loan progressed. Its just as well, because if he had done well we may never had seen Ripley in blue 'n' white.

Please tell me why everyone has gone for Duncan Shearer? Mine is Friedal, Salgado, Berg, Moran, Le Saux, Ripley, Sherwood, Tugay, Duff,Bellamy, A. Shearer.

Even so thats an outlay of £5 million plus wages. For a club who has been penalised for financial problems not peanuts

The squad that got relegated should not of been relegated but due to manager's ineptness that season we did. Although not totally to blame, Mowbray's tactics at times did cost us valuable points that season, PNE at home instantly springs to mind. I know several will argue that if that season started at the point he took over we'd have finished seventh and its a fair point but many of the faults of that squad still remain and as such the coach has failed to solve the problems he inherited. The conceding of late goals, the fact that we don't get out of our defensive third in the last quarter of a game. The inability to defend set pieces correctly. All these still remain as well as the lack of overall match fitness. The squad on the whole hasn't changed a great deal and as such should be aiming higher than just above the relegation. Mid table was a fair target if the basics are done correctly and maybe a push for the playoffs if basics are built on as well as well thought out tactics.

I'm in a minority of people I speak to you but I wanted rid last season after the Oldham away debacle and I still think he is tactically inept. We won promotion despite him and not because of him. If he hadn't of signed Dack, his transfer dealings would be classified poor at best. With Dack, mixed. Off the field I think has done brilliantly to pull the club together and I still think the reason he hasn't had questions asked before now is because of off the field relations

It was organised through the Club to be fair.

The Scouts from St. Georges, Mill Hill as part of their Community Impact Badge went to the Old Blackburn Cemetery to clean Rovers' Founder, John Lewis' grave.

Oddly I felt being played out benefitted him. It gave him more space. He was hopeless playing as CF as Tyronne says he was easily bullied when faced with big defenders.

We have irons in the fire so we can only hope. Sounds like a quiet day on the Western Front

No he didn't.....but I notice Chaddy has already told you.

We can't get promoted from the premiership. We're this season's team with the late run who finishes sixth and goes up. Stay positive...live the dream

You are right, he didn't warm up but I still think that was more Mowbray reacting to the developing situation on the pitch. At the time Evans was stripped ready to come on and Bennett was red carded. Mowbray changed his mind and I dont think Chapman had a choice. To use this as if Chapman has a football brain is a little harsh.

I agree. We need to find a place for Brereton

I'd say there is little chance of Rodwell in midfield.

We dont need another who plays just off a forward

In the 2nd half I agree but I also think from the start, Armstrong should of been more central to test him from off against pace as he has never been the quickest.